Example sentences of "since i was " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd been trying to get into training since I was fourteen . |
| 2 | And much much much much rather feed you brandy with my mouth which has n't done so much smiling since I was knee-high to a grasshopper and did n't know just how much fun this life could be . |
| 3 | ‘ Have been since I was a kid . ’ |
| 4 | I feel that their movement follows the tradition of Mahatma Gandhi which has deeply inspired me ever since I was a small boy . |
| 5 | Then the whole 12.30 thing began like it always had since I was small . |
| 6 | ‘ It 's a long time since I was that — if I ever was . ’ |
| 7 | I 've lived in Miami since I was two years old but when Emilio and I started singing professionally , back in the late Seventies , we sang only in Spanish . |
| 8 | ‘ I had been rowing with my dad since I was little , so I did n't want to go to his new family with my brother . |
| 9 | Very humbly I said how grateful I was , since I was only a surgeon . |
| 10 | ‘ Come on , I 've always wanted to ride on the Wheel , ever since I was a little kid . |
| 11 | ‘ In 1980 I was 19 and just coming to the end of The Skids , which I 'd been in since I was 15 . |
| 12 | When I remarked that this was a pity , since I was looking for a peat replacement to acidify limey soil , my man began detectably to back-pedal . |
| 13 | Since I was asking young women to talk freely about a highly personal and intimate area of their lives , I thought it only fair that I should also tell my own story , and set out some of my reasons for my interest in the subject . |
| 14 | I suppose I am plump — according to the ‘ Height and Weight ’ charts I am on the heavy side of OK , but my weight has stayed the same since I was fourteen , so I know it 's not true that I 'm overeating , or greedy . |
| 15 | Since I was behind the public address speakers , I could not hear it . |
| 16 | ‘ Ever since I was a boy , I 've been making models and carvings , ’ he said . |
| 17 | Since I was unprepared , lacking a condom , she and I were endangered from two directions in another sense also : from disease ( for we were strangers to each other ) , and from a pregnancy desired by neither of us . |
| 18 | SINCE I was in the Palatinate , I spent the evening with C.V . |
| 19 | But this day is something I 've dreamed of since I was a kid and I just want to enjoy it . |
| 20 | Davies , a geography student at Robinson College , said : ‘ I 've played football since I was 10 or 11 . |
| 21 | ‘ Hampshire have been so good to me since I was a youngster here that I really want to win something again for them , ’ he says . |
| 22 | I have carried a heavy load on my back ever since I was a boy . |
| 23 | ‘ I 've done it ever since I was a baby . |
| 24 | Do you realise , that I 've been soldiering longer than anything else since I was a schoolboy ? |
| 25 | People have been telling me that ever since I was a small boy . ’ |
| 26 | As a trained biologist and a conservationist ( ‘ since I was nine ’ ) , it was not surprising that he was interested in the Selva Sur which boasts more plants and species than anywhere else on earth . |
| 27 | Since I was wearing posh garden visiting attire — a pair of thin striped leggings , white leather ballet pumps , a halterneck top , a cute bolero cardigan and dangly earrings — we were only planning to leave the car for some air . |
| 28 | Such a shame really , since I was so looking forward to the day . |
| 29 | It was something I 'd dreamed of since I was a boy humping golf-bags nearly as big as me . |
| 30 | Inflation here has been rampant , the charge for admission having increased sixty-fold since I was a lad . |